Question

My XML is built like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Pages>

    <Page id="1" title="myTitle">
        Content
    </Page>

    <Page id="2" title="myTitle2">
        Content2
    </Page>

</Pages>

How can I get the content by ID in C# code?

Answer 1

I’d use LINQ to XML and something like:

var document = XDocument.Load(...);
var page = document.Descendants("Page")
                   .Where(x => (int) x.Attribute("id") == id)
                   .FirstOrDefault();

Now page will be the first XElement with the given id, or null if it’s not found.